Toxic exposures [electronic resource] : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / Phil Brown.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007Description: xxxiv, 356 p. : illISBN: 9780231503259 (electronic bk.); 0231503253 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Environmentally induced diseases | Asthma -- Etiology | Breast -- Cancer -- Etiology | Persian Gulf syndrome -- EtiologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 615.9/02 LOC classification: RB152.5 | .B76 2007Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index.
Citizen-science alliances and health social movements: contested illnesses and challenges to the dominant epidemiological paradigm -- Breast cancer: a powerful movement and a struggle for science -- Asthma, environmental factors, and environmental justice -- Gulf War-related illnesses and the hunt for causation: the "stress of war" vs. the "dirty battlefield" -- Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses -- The new precautionary approach: a public paradigm in progress -- Implications of the contested illnesses perspective -- Conclusion: the growing environmental health movement.
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